Pope Francis wrote about his wishes and plans for his own funeral in his memoir Hope: The Autobiography, which was published in January 2025. He specified which church he wished to be buried in and ...

After the funeral for Pope Francis, there are nine days of official mourning. During this period, cardinals arrive in Rome to ...

Years before his death at the age of 88, Pope Francis outlined his own burial plans and said he hoped that they would be ...

The first Latin American leader of the Catholic Church passed away at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to choose the new pope. Here's what happens next.

Even the moment of the formal verification of the pope’s death takes place in the context of a prayer service “at home” in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae where he lived. The Vatican said that ...

Vice president says Pope Francis was ‘obviously ill’ during their private meeting at the cardinal’s residence in Rome on ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the ...

The Christian view is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came into this world for the purpose of redeeming lost humanity ...